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HAPPY PURIM! The Endless Story
Sultan Knish / Daniel Greenfield ^ | 03/13/2017 | Hannah Szenes (@hannah_szenes)

Posted on 03/13/2017 5:42:52 AM PDT by H Szenes

Those who feel time in their bones know the patterns of history, reading ages like constellations, can never lose themselves in one age or fall into the fallacy of a new era. They know that there is nothing new under the sun. Machines may come and go, but the world is a broken place because the hearts of men have not turned from their ways. And so they remember that every age carries within it the seeds of its ruin. They witness the ruin, climb out of the ashes and move on.

Jews like Mordechai understand this. New Age Jews do not.

The confrontation between Mordechai and Haman was a collision between two different conceptions of history. It was a contest for the Jewish soul.

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TOPICS: History; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: purim
As expected, Daniel Greenfield gives a powerful read for our times and for all times. This goes a long way towards explaining the answer to the question I get all the time - why do so many Jews vote Democratic
1 posted on 03/13/2017 5:42:52 AM PDT by H Szenes
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To: H Szenes

The Book of Esther is in many ways strikingly modern. It describes a pattern of events that has evidently repeated itself for millennia, to the present day.

As a bonus, there’s a happy ending.


2 posted on 03/13/2017 5:58:02 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: H Szenes
An excerpt:

The old Jews know what the New Age Jews do not, that history has not ended, that the past is still with us and that it has sharp teeth. They know that Man has not changed, that his sophistication is still only a shell and that sooner or later the shell cracks. If it does not crack from within, then it is cracked from without.

3 posted on 03/13/2017 6:11:57 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: H Szenes

Jews like Mordechai will understand this. New Age Democtrat Jews do not.

The confrontation between (Mordechai) Republicans and (Haman) Democrats is a collision between two different conceptions of what history is and will be.


4 posted on 03/13/2017 6:18:25 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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